Child theme functions.php

Hi there
I’m using the free Responsive theme and am trying to create my own page templates that will use unique sidebars in a child theme.

I have started with one page only and have created a custom page template called page_sr_sat_xi.php which calls the side bar Sidebar SR SatXI.

My page template works fine but still uses the default right sidebar in the theme and I have no custom sidebar in the widgets admin.

The Responsive theme has in its top level functions.php simply a series of requires to various functions files in a sub includes folder. I copied the ‘sub’ functions.php into an includes folder in my child theme structure and have the following code in there:
http://pastebin.com/t79JztRi

I gathered from reading around that because of the way child theme functions are loaded, that I needed to remove the parent theme ‘widget-init’ and add one for the child theme.

I am reasonably sure that the problem here is that the child theme includes/functions.php isn’t ever being seen because the functions.php in the parent folder calls the one in its own includes folder. Can anyone help me understand how I should get over this? I tried copying the parent functions.php that calls the others into my child theme but the site crashed.

Thanks for any help – I hope that wasn’t too confusing to read? My head is whirling!