You can also create the style.css file in the child theme and set it like this:
/*
Theme Name: your_theme_name
Description: Your theme description.
Author: Your Name @ Your Company
Template: parent_theme
*/
@import url("../parent_theme/style.css");
/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
This is how WordPress recommends to work with styles in child themes as you can see here.