Trouble with creating child theme

Hi,

Just wondering if someone could help me with an issue i’m having creating a child theme. I’ve never had problems with this before but this has me quite stumped.

So I followed the wordpress codex instructions to create a child theme. Created a directory in the same root where all themes are installed. I then created the style.css file in this folder and wrote all the necessary info in the header like so:

/*
 Theme Name:     stattichild
 Description:    Statti Child Theme created by Cayenne Creative
 Author:         Cayenne Creative
 Author URI:     http://mywebsite.com/
 Template:       statti
 Version:        1.0.0
*/

/* =Imports styles from the parent theme
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
@import url('../statti/style.css');

When I write css changes, they don’t work….. then i noticed the style.css file in the root of my theme does not contain any css but only calls the other multiple stylesheets which are located in a subfolder.

How do I get my child theme to work considering this?

Thanks in advance to any that can help!