Thank you for your response. I had fixed the issue before you had a chance to look at it. I did not install demo content (I never do when building a wordpress site, too much clutter) however, after digging into the parent theme code, I realized that i needed one of the sections on my homepage to have the ID of section-home.
This is nowhere in your documentation, and took several costly hours for me to figure out on my own. I would recommend putting this somewhere in your documentation, stating that if you do not install demo content, and want the menu to function as it does in the demo, that you need to add this id to the top section on your homepage.
Thank you.