blender making empty parent as a child in cube parent Okay so I've been trying to make it so that an empty object will become a child in my cube parent object but I don't know how to make it become a child.

I've tried pressing shift to make the empty object into my cube parent but it doesn't make the empty parent become a child.
This has to be done in Object Mode. 

First select the object you want as a children (in your case, the empty). Hold SHIFT while you select the object you want to become the parent of the object you selected first (Note that the outline around your empty object should turn from a bright orange to a dark orange color).

Then press CTRL+P and select "Select parent to "Object"".

GIF illustrating the process:



Hope this helps.