Changing Parent & Child Themes

Hi All,

Firstly, I’m new to this!

I’ve got the parent – child theme working but I’m not understanding it now that it is all installed. All youtube videos state that when you change something in the parent theme it may get changed when parent theme it gets updated. I understand that and it makes sense too. What I’m not getting is do I now not change anything in the parent theme and end-up moving from ‘page builder’ to programming an empty .css file.

Basically where do you stop using the WP theme change functionality and use the child .css file. It basically becomes a steep learning curve trying accomplish the same outcome using CSS.

I MUST be missing something here surely!!!

Regards
jsgthomson