The Prime Minister is facing the media this morning after telling business leaders to act like adults and stop worrying about what the Government is doing, after they raised concerns about plummeting business confidence.National’s coalition partners also released headline-grabbing policies over the weekend, with Act pledging to crack down on badly-behaved school students and their parents, and NZ First promising up to $45,000 for people to have babies.Christopher Luxon will appear on Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking Breakfast at 7.35am. You can listen here.Luxon was speaking at a Rotorua Business Chamber breakfast when the group’s chief executive Melanie Short said the city had experienced the “sharpest fall” in business confidence in almost a decade.“The affordability of doing business, it’s getting harder and harder ... How long can we hang on?” she asked.Luxon responded that that view was “quite negative”, saying New Zealand businesses needed to move away from a “parent-child mentality” of waiting to see what the Government would do.If businesses were not “retooling and radically disrupting” their business, “you ain’t doing your job”, Luxon said.New Zealand businesses needed to move away from a “parent-child mentality” of waiting to see what the Government would do, he said.“Who cares what the Government will think or do?”Labour has called those comments “out of touch” and patronising, while the PM’s office later told RNZ his comments had been “mischaracterised”.Over the weekend Act also announced it wanted teachers to be able to use “reasonable force” to remove disruptive students from class, along with a $3000 fine for parents who didn’t engage with schools over their child’s behaviour.Some teachers have warned the policy could make schools less safe, and called instead for more learning and wellbeing support in the classroom.NZ First also unveiled its plan to boost birth rates on the weekend, promising a $5000 tax-free grant for the first three years of a child’s life. The grant would apply for up to three new babies, and one parent would have to be a New Zealand citizen to be eligible.National has called the policy expensive and complex, with the party’s campaign chairman Simeon Brown telling the Post it was “untargeted spending which would simply increase taxes on working New Zealanders”.